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note about fork on windows
author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:53:18 +0200 |
parents | fcc352fd4283 |
children | 03dfb896ca4b |
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--- a/Sphinx/source/plugins/python.rst Sat Jul 25 21:23:13 2020 +0200 +++ b/Sphinx/source/plugins/python.rst Tue Aug 04 20:53:18 2020 +0200 @@ -567,6 +567,11 @@ Performance and concurrency --------------------------- +**Important:** This section only applies to UNIX-like systems. The +``multiprocessing`` package will not work on Microsoft Windows as the +latter OS has a different model for `forking processes +<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(system_call)>`__. + .. highlight:: python Let us consider the following sample Python script that makes a